Lifestyle - The Durango Herald

Center of Southwest Studies lecture series features Mabel Dodge Luhan

Lois Rudnick, professor of American studies at University of Massachusetts, will give a presentation about her most recent book, Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company: American Moderns and the West, a...

DATE: Aug 6, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

How to make a good jam without the hassle of canning

It took me an embarrassing number of years to overcome my (unreasonable) paranoia about making jam that would somehow give my friends and family botulism. By the time I mastered ...

DATE: Aug 5, 2018 | CATEGORY: Food

Battered in recent years, the Animas has bounced back before

Despite ash flows and mine waste, the river is resilient

DATE: Aug 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Jewish teens enlisted to fight anti-Semitism in Germany

LUCKAU, Germany – Sophie Steiert opens a bag of kosher gummy bears and offers them to 20 other German teenagers seated around her in their high school classroom. “They’re really y...

DATE: Aug 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

Archaeology lecture to discuss land loss

Colorado Archaeology Society’s Hisatsinom Chapter will host a lecture by Kathryn Turney about the consequences that land loss has had on Native American culture at 7 p.m. Tuesday at First Un...

DATE: Aug 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

San Juan Basin Archaeological Society to meet Wednesday

San Juan Basin Archaeological Society will meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive. Heather Smith with Eastern New Mexico...

DATE: Aug 4, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

State parks admission free Monday

Colorado Parks and Wildlife will celebrate Colorado Day on Monday by offering free admission to all 41 state parks in Colorado. Colorado Day was created by the state Legislature t...

DATE: Aug 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Durango Bird Club to meet Wednesday

The Durango Bird Club will meet from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Wednesday in Room 055 of the Education-Business Hall at Fort Lewis College, 1000 Rim Drive. Brad and Noma Macurda will give a p...

DATE: Aug 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Pope rules out death penalty in change to church teaching

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has decreed that the death penalty is “inadmissible” under all circumstances and the Catholic Church should campaign to abolish it, a change in church teaching th...

DATE: Aug 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion

3D-printed implant restores woman’s collapsed ankle

Doctor at Mercy Orthopedic Associates is an early adopter of innovative procedure

DATE: Aug 2, 2018 | CATEGORY: Southwest Life

Company unveils moving mosque to welcome Muslims in Japan

TOKYO – A large white and blue truck pulls up outside a stadium in central Japan and slowly expands into a place of worship. Welcome to the Mobile Mosque. As Japan prep...

DATE: Aug 1, 2018 | CATEGORY: Religion